Let's Begin Again

I've fallen again
I'm hidden again
I feel the soul discordance

Like a tree that ceases to

Catch light and access water

Where did I lose my way?
My bereft soul
Begins it's backtrack
Yet again

I want a life in union with you

Living Water welling up in me

To eternal life

But how often I go

To broken cisterns

And don't realize it

Until I thirst

You let us go

Little stray sheep

Runaway children

You give us freedom to choose

So You may be chosen

Sin is braided into my flesh

And the world never lets up it's gravity pull

Am I doomed to fail?

You knew it was so

So fought for me

Yes, you've already championed this battle in my stead

May I be strive to be alive

In the life that I've already been gifted

When my eyes stray from Your face

And I feel so far away

As I slip into the storm

Please catch my outstretched hand

Even if that's all that's left

And let's begin again.

References: Jeremiah 2:13, Proverbs 4:23, Luke 15: 1-24, Matthew 14:22-33, John 4, Genesis 3:6-10

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